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- Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
- Path: sparky!uunet!beauty!irving
- From: irving@Happy-Man.com (Irving_Wolfe)
- Subject: Handling Invalid Local User
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.171133.14703@Happy-Man.com>
- Reply-To: Irving_Wolfe@Happy-Man.com
- Organization: Happy Man Corp., Vashon Island, WA 98070-7399
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 17:11:33 GMT
- Lines: 35
-
- We are in a rural area and would like our electronic post office to
- work more like a friendly, rural post office should.
-
- The default handling of invalid local addresses (in the sendmail
- NX5.67c distributed by Next) is to bounce the incoming mail with an
- appropriate message and (with Op set) to send a headers-only copy
- to postmaster.
-
- Is there anything I can do _without_ starting from scratch with
- sendmail source code (which I don't want to do because I'd either
- have to hack in Next's netinfo aliases stuff or stop using netinfo
- for aliases, and because it's another package to support locally in
- limited time) that would let me change that behavior?
-
- At very least, I'd like the _whole_ message to go to postmaster,
- since these addressing errors are usually rather obvious to fix
- (people using firstname-lastname instead of firstname_lastname,
- assuming the existence of aliases like "info", or making simple
- spelling errors) and that will get the mail to the proper person
- more reliably than counting on the remote sender to know what to do
- himself. Preferably, I'd like to do that, and send back a
- customized bounce message, with only the headers, informing the
- sender that his mail has been sent to postmaster to see if it can
- be delivered despite the invalid local address.
-
- (I have thought about the security implications and they are
- unimportant at our site. Neither is the volume great.)
-
- Thanks!
- - Irving
- --
- Irving_Wolfe@Happy-Man.com Happy Man Corp. 206/463-9399 x101
- 4410 SW Pt. Robinson Rd., Vashon Island, WA 98070-7399 fax x108
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